I have been asked by various people to comment on this recent article in the mainstream financial magazine, Forbes: 1.6 Billion Rounds of Ammo for Homeland Security? It’s Time for a National Conversation.

I am happy to address the article because it brings up some useful perspectives for us all to inspect. I encourage you to read the Forbes article, if you haven’t already, before reading my analysis below. It will make a lot more sense that way!

As reported, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, some for hollow-point rounds (forbidden by international law in war), and a large amount for specialized snipers. This would be enough to sustain a war in America for more than 20 years…less than 6 million rounds a month were used at the height of the Iraq war.

So, first there is the critical question:

“Why in the world would the US domestic security force need enough bullets to wage an Iraq-style war for 20 years?”

When the DHS was first caught buying these huge volumes of ammunition, the official excuse was that they were for “training exercises.” That didn’t hold up, because even the military doesn’t use very expensive, hugely destructive “hollow point” bullets for target practice.

So the next reason concocted was that the government was saving us, the taxpayers, money by “buying in bulk.” So as they are cutting back on teachers, roads and air-traffic controllers, they are spending outrageous amounts on bullets that would destroy the entire target for which they were supposedly to be used?

It’s scenarios like this that are awakening people to the dire need for critical thinking. The good news is that Forbes is a very mainstream publication and they are actually covering an event that is inexplicable without some sort of understanding of a much more far-reaching and systemic agenda for consolidating of control.

In the Forbes article, they only follow the money/motivation as far as the notion that “bureaucrats are running amok” with their irresponsible spending. They distance themselves from the only sentence that gets to the heart of the matter by writing that “scaling back” on such expenses would “somewhat defuse, by the government making itself less armed-to-the-teeth, the anxiety of those who mistrust the benevolence of the federales.”

So if the notion of covert planning of an illegal or immoral nature, i.e. – “conspiracy,” has seemed far fetched before, perhaps now would be a good time to reconsider.

It’s worth noting that it took Forbes eleven months — almost a year to catch on to — or be willing to — publish this news. Paul Watson, Alex Jones and the Infowars team have been covering it since last summer — through tracking government procurement bids — what used to be called “investigative reporting.” I was alerting people to these developments on my trips to Australia and Mexico in the fall.

The government rationalizations clearly don’t make any common sense, so in what context can we understand such actions? Is there a lens through which this is explainable? I believe these bullets are in preparation for domestic blowback that those perpetrating the agenda for domination and control anticipate is coming. If you’re living in the United States, that means these deadly bullets are being purchased by your military to use against you here on your home turf if you resist the plan that is being implemented. If that sounds hard to believe, let’s look at the evidence.

The IMF, the World Bank, Goldman Sachs and the so-called Washington consensus (the mega-banks and multi-national corporations operating through the US government and military) have already taken down Ecuador, Chile, Panama, Tanzania, Bolivia, Thailand, Japan, Russia, Iceland, Greece, Spain and other countries around the world with the sort of debt, austerity and assassination strategies described by John Perkins in “Confessions of an Economic Hitman.” In every country taken over this way, there was “blowback” — people resisting in the streets. This resistance is usually mislabeled with such terms as “insurgency” and “terrorism.” The perpetrators know it is always going to happen when they steal people’s resources and ruin their lives. This awakening and resistance is the same dynamic that is beginning to grow in America, as we experience the deterioration of our rights, our privacy, our paychecks, our retirement, the safety of our communities and the value of our currency. The demise of the US economy is a critical part of a documented plan to impose a one-world government that transcends national sovereignty and puts the entire planet under the thumb of the financial elite using the World Bank, the WTO, the UN and NATO as their fronts (see the movie, THRIVE, for more on this). The purchase of nearly two billion deadly bullets by an agency whose only jurisdiction is America is not a mistake; it is not random; it is not benevolent. It is a dangerous threat to us all.

The stock market has been artificially pumped up by the Federal Reserve printing presses (diluting the actual purchasing power of your dollars) in what they candy-coat with the name “Quantitative Easing.” And the precious metals markets, especially gold, appear to be artificially suppressed by covert manipulation. Both of these strategies fool many people into thinking there is a real recovery going on and they should stay in the stock market and out of the street protests.

But let’s look through the lens of an Agenda for Global Domination, as described in the documentary film, THRIVE, that includes the demise of America. If you were planning the collapse of the economy, trying to institute a global authority and preparing to handle historic blowback, you might want to:
•Dismantle constitutional rights
✓ Patriot Act

]]>By: Strych09http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46339
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:54:13 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46339what y2kurtus said. I was there, in person as a depositor and investor, for the run on IndyMac bank in 2008. It wasn’t pretty, and that was with full FDIC insurance guaranteeing deposits 100%.

I feel entirely comfortable predicting a massive bank run on Thursday unless a plan that doesn’t haircut…sorry, “tax” small depositors, is in place before then.

]]>By: Abbotsonhttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46337
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:41:45 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46337A good article Felix.
I don’t think it would be the end of the world for Cyprus to leave the euro but it might be very bad for the sustainability of that synthetic currency, the ghost of the Bundesmark, based on a sub-optimal currency area.
When one assesses the sovereign risk of a currency one first of all examines at the quality of economic management. Thus, the demonstrated low calibre of the IMF and Eurogroup leaders, mainly qualified as lawyers and accountants with little or no grasp of economic dynamics, does not bode well for the euro.
As long as the so-called Troika takes a punitive stance to towards the countries it is supposed to be helping to get back on track and muddles through a fuzzy version of what is at best an out-dated IMF model one should be concerned that perhaps the loonies have taken over the asylum.
Even the IMF Head has chosen to ignore, or fails to understand, a recent IMF staff study where by intelligently and professionally applying statistical and economic theory they suggest that severe austerity programs are self-defeating because the revealed negative multipliers involved are much more damaging than one might expect. The study explains why IMF country forecasts are so often very wrong a poor guide for decision makers. The Fund Head was no even aware of the summary of her staff’s findings in the September IMF Outlook booklet when asked about the results at a press conference in October.
]]>By: Greycaphttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46336
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:24:49 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46336Is Davies one of these guys who likes to open 4-card preempts, or what? It is true that you don’t expect to buy the auction with 2 hearts, but the *whole point* is that you are quite happy to play there if the opponents let you.

So how is that like Cyprus again? The terms of the analogy are that Cyprus is hoping that Europe doesn’t bail them out, and that all the pressure is on Europe. OK, you agree with the second part, but Davies does not and neither of you agree with the first.

#dumbmetaphor

]]>By: EconMavhttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46335
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:21:54 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46335Thanks for an informative post!
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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:38:48 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46333was suppose to end Little old ladys and rich old men in Spain, Ireland, Italy… will all be watching with interest.
]]>By: y2kurtushttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46332
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:37:15 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46332The tragedy of this whole mess for Cyprus is that they are still going to see a massive outflow from heir banking system in less than 48 hours. Does anyone really think the Russian ganstas or little old Cypriot grandmothers are just going to say “eh… the proposal to take my money got voted down so I’ll just leave it in there.”

Right… when the banks can’t handle requests for withdraws Thursday they will install withdrawal limits… which is the only thing which you could possibly do to make more people want to take their money out.

Little old ladys and rich old men in S

]]>By: JohnYardhttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46330
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:28:37 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46330Concerning Cyprus natgas : isn’t ownership disputed by Turkey? Sounds like a hail mary pass.
]]>By: Remotehttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/19/cypruss-bad-haircut-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46327
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:23:31 +0000https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20958#comment-46327Excellent article. Though I would give more credit to brave Cyprus standing against mighty Frau Merkel & Co. Looks like troika badly miscalculated the move. Better they backtrack from taxes on deposits and pretend that it was meant to be so. The EU will never be the same after this though. VIVA Cyprus!
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